Crossword clues for inbreeding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inbreed \In*breed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inbred; p. pr. & vb. n. Inbreeding.] [Cf. Imbreed.]
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To produce or generate within.
--Bp. Reynolds.To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue.
--Milton. To breed in and in. See under Breed, v. i.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) breeding between members of a relatively small population, especially one in which most members are related vb. (present participle of inbreed English)
WordNet
n. the act of mating closely related individuals
Wikipedia
Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely related genetically. By analogy, the term is used in human reproduction, but more commonly refers to the genetic disorders and other consequences that may arise from incestuous sexual relationships and consanguinity.
Inbreeding results in homozygosity, which can increase the chances of offspring being affected by recessive or deleterious traits. This generally leads to a decreased biological fitness of a population (called inbreeding depression), which is its ability to survive and reproduce. An individual who inherits such deleterious traits is referred to as inbred. The avoidance of expression of such deleterious recessive alleles caused by inbreeding, via inbreeding avoidance mechanisms, is the main selective reason for outcrossing. Crossbreeding between populations also often has positive effects on fitness-related traits.
Inbreeding is a technique used in selective breeding. In livestock breeding, breeders may use inbreeding when, for example, trying to establish a new and desirable trait in the stock, but will need to watch for undesirable characteristics in offspring, which can then be eliminated through further selective breeding or culling. Inbreeding is used to reveal deleterious recessive alleles, which can then be eliminated through assortative breeding or through culling. In plant breeding, inbred lines are used as stocks for the creation of hybrid lines to make use of the effects of heterosis. Inbreeding in plants also occurs naturally in the form of self-pollination.
Usage examples of "inbreeding".
Inbreeding is common in Appalachia, as are genetic deformities, but Nurse Rosalee noticed nothing unusual about me.
I was forced to develop the incantations that prevent the Minions from inbreeding.
See them in something ten years old and they looked ten years old themselves, bucktoothed with inbreeding.
But in these days, due to inbreeding, indiscriminate marriages with nontelepaths and the disappearance of the old means of stimulating these gifts, the various Comyn psi powers no longer bred true.
Afterwards, geneticists had wryly demonstrated that —since each racial group was so small that unless their descendants intermarried, each would undergo deteriorative genetic drift due to inbreeding on the colony planet—the racists had made cross-breeding necessary to survival.
Afterwards, geneticists had wryly demonstrated that-- since each racial group was so small that unless their descendents intermarried, each would undergo deteriorative genetic drift due to inbreeding on the colony planet--the racists had made crossbreeding necessary to survival.
Afterwards, geneticists had wryly demonstrated that–since each racial group was so small that unless their descendants intermarried, each would undergo deteriorative genetic drift due to inbreeding on the colony planet–the racists had made cross-breeding necessary to survival.
You do it by inbreeding until the end product is dangerously near breakdown point, either through extreme nervous tension, as in our case, or through sterility.
I was working up the courage to touch the car door handle when yet another product of Buchanon inbreeding came around from the back of the building.
Although fossil evidence is lacking, gene analysis reveals that Tanu and Paramutan are genealogically quite close and only their great physical separation has prevented inbreeding up until this time.
Also, partner swapping would be a useful way of increasing the potential genetic diversity in an isolated population, preventing inbreeding and ensuring that the Native Hawaiian genome would remain healthy.
Inbreeding was well on the way to completely homogenising the genetic structure of the species, despite inter-dome eugenic conventions.
I'm sure you recognized that 25-50-25 distribution as representing the most drastic case of inbreeding, one which can happen only half the time with line breeding, only a quarter of the time with full siblings, in both cases through chromosome reduction at meiosis.
When you do this with horses and dogs, it's called inbreeding or line breeding.
Maybe not the FSP, thought Varian, kicking at the mud, but they'd need a larger gene pool or their community risked dangerous inbreeding that could wipe out all they had achieved.